I decided to salvage the IR parts form the Spykee Micro Cell robot, so that I would be able add some IR experimenting circuits to GarBot 1 (GARage Sale RoBOT), as I am now calling this robot. This is what I came up with:

I also decided to use some of the plastic parts to add design elements to this experimental concoction. And lastly, I thought I would try a little servo motor action with that crazy arm thing, all salvaged from the Spykee Micro Cell robot.

The IR sensor is located in that head-like chrome colored piece up front. There is a blinking LED in the EZ-Robot sign, which the arms are waving. And, if you listen carefully (or turn the volume way up), you can hear tones as the arm waves back and forth.

The blue poster putty, used to hang wall art, wasn't quite holding the mini servo with the waving arms. It would give up and everything tended to fall off overnight. Luckily, I try to keep all the plastic pieces whenever I dismantle a garage sale find. That little green piece now holds the servo to the chassis. This picture looks at the back of the waving arms.

I can now move on to other GarBot 1 add-ons. These two pieces must have a place on any respectable robot:

The one on the left is a digital thermometer with an H92B4 Photoelectric switch, that measured wind speed in its former life. The one on the right came from a kid's game called "100 Hoops". Those giant numbers (2 inches high) are begging to become a counter.